Unsung Heroines
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Privately heldIthell Colquhoun (1906-1988):
Autumnal Equinox
Framed (ref: 10145)
Oil on canvas
81 x 31 in, (206 x 81 cm)
See all works by Ithell Colquhoun oil Canney Abstract Art portraits 49 pictures Rediscovering Women Artist
Provenance: Sotheby's London, Ithell Colquhoun Studio Sale, April 24, 1985; Leicester Galleries' Private Collection
Inscribed on a label verso Ithell Colquhoun, Stonecross Cottage, Green Land Pound, Penzance; and on another Official agents Alfred Styles and Sons, Autumnal Equinox
Literature: Daily Mirror, February 19, 1949, illustrated front page. Eric Ratcliffe, Ithell Colquhoun: Pioneer Surrealist Artist, Occultist, Writer and Poet, Mandrake 2016, illustrated in colour plate 80
Exhibited: London, Suffolk Street Galleries, 1949; Bradford, City of Bradford Art Gallery, Cartwright Hall, Sixtieth Spring Exhibition, 1953, number 286 Exeter, City of Exeter Museums and Art Gallery, Ithell Colquhoun Paintings, Collages and Drawings, 1972, number 3 Penzance, Newlyn Orion Gallery, Ithell Colquhoun: Surrealism, Paintings, Drawings, Collages 1936-76, 1976, number 18 London, Murray Feeley Fine Art, 1992
Some watercolour studies for the work can be found in the Tate Archive.
